In celebration of National Arts and Humanities Month, artists Hadley Holliday, Nikko Mueller and Eamon Ore-Giron will lead a walk-through at 10 a.m., Saturday, October 14, of their artwork as part of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Art’s newest art exhibition on display in the Union Station Passageway Gallery, Far Out: Movement through Form and Color.
This abstract exhibition features six contemporary artists’ interpretations of energy, movement and transition that will be on display through January 2019. The artwork reflects Union Station as a hub of perpetual motion and change. In distinctively visual and unique ways, the artists’ works embody these themes.
Metro Art staff will facilitate informal conversations with the three participating artists and discuss the other artworks in the exhibition.
The tour will begin at 10 a.m. near the aquarium — itself an artwork — in Union Station East.
Artists who are participating in the exhibition are:
Lee Clarke’s colorful, abstract works exude unbridled energy, positivity and movement. They evoke visual representations of hyperdrive bursts of a starship reaching light speed in science fantasy movies such as the Star Wars franchise.
Hadley Holliday creates artworks that depict psychedelic patterns of interlocking shapes and colors. Her paintings resemble the visual effects of tie-dye patterns, stained glass windows or kaleidoscopic projections — all evoking a sense of wonder, meditation and introspection.
Haeley Kyong’s paintings are inspired by her lifelong passion for color and shape. Kyong favors pastel colors and geometric shapes, juxtaposing them to draw out their expressive essence and emotions.
Nikko Mueller creates paintings that depict the structure of society from an aerial view. Mueller’s locations are carefully selected and sourced from Google Earth and his imagery is painstakingly constructed by applying layers of pigment and shaped by tape and X-Acto knives on the painting surface.
Eamon Ore-Giron utilizes abstraction to investigate the potentials of cross-pollination and how idea, shape and color mutate and acclimate and move between languages and cultures. His abstract paintings wed Latin American and indigenous craft traditions with 20th century European abstract art, creating a certain nostalgia for a global modernism.
Soonae Tark is inspired by the energy, diversity and complexity of the metropolis. Her paintings depict the stacking and juxtaposing of biomorphic shapes of color on top of and against one another, creating a whimsical world filled with both architectural structures and bubble gum colored Tupperware.